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Problem Title: The Stunt Person |
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Year: 2003 |
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Student Level: Undergraduate |
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Source: MCM |
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Commentary: Yes (1) |
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Student Papers: Yes (6) |
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Problem |
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An exciting action scene in a movie is going to be filmed, and you are the stunt coordinator! A stunt person on a motorcycle will jump over an elephant and land in a pile of cardboard boxes to cushion their fall. You need to protect the stunt person, and also use relatively few cardboard boxes (lower cost, not seen by camera, etc.).
Your job is to:
- determine what size boxes to use
- determine how many boxes to use
- determine how the boxes will be stacked
- determine if any modifications to the boxes would help
- generalize to different combined weights (stunt person & motorcycle) and different jump heights
Note that, in "Tomorrow Never Dies", the James Bond character on a motorcycle jumps over a helicopter. |
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Commentary |
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Judge's Commentary:
The Outstanding Stunt
Person Papers
William P. Fox
Dept. of Mathematics
Francis Marion University
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Student Papers |
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Safe Landings
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California, USA
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A Time-Independent Model of
Box Safety for Stunt Motorcyclists
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Thinking Outside the Box
and Over the Elephant
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA
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You Too Can Be James Bond
Southeast University,
Nanjing, China
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Cardboard Comfortable When
It Comes to Crashing
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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FlyWith Confidence
Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China
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